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Barclays goes online with iShare trading
Barclays Capital is now offering online trading of iShares via its award winning Barx investor solutions platform. Once enabled, clients will be able to instantly click and trade ishares. The benefits of trading on the platform include tighter spreads…
BarCap investor solutions in Italy hires Boaron
Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank, has hired Fabrizio Boaron as a managing director and head of private bank coverage, Italy for Investor Solutions, the retail distribution arm of BarCap.
Foreign exchange - Algos a go-go
Structured products
Foreign exchange - Carry on regardless
Carry trade
Islamic finance - Structuring for sharia
Structured products
Collateral concerns
CFXOs
Islamic finance - Work in progress
Securitisation
UK regulator to simplify reporting
The Financial Services Authority (FSA), the UK regulator, plans to shorten two of its compulsory returns, in an effort to ease the administrative burden placed on UK industry.
Hong Kong warns banks on capital and disclosure compliance
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has reminded banks they must demonstrate compliance with rules introduced this year.
SEC names financial reporting committee members
Christopher Cox, the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC)’s chair, announced the members of the new Committee on Improvements to Financial Committee yesterday.
Regulatory compliance to transform market data
The introduction of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) in the EU and the Regulation of National Market System (Reg NMS) in the US could increase the amount of market data published by 900%.
Lufthansa
The German airline group stresses strong communication between those handling the physical and financial sides of the business as paramount to energy price risk management
The one that gets away
Managing volumetric risk is exceedingly challenging, yet getting it wrong can damage a company's reputation and make it look as though it is not in control of its operations. Garth Renne and Ken Truesdell of Brookfield Power suggest some solutions
Adelaide Brighton
Volatility in the Australian power market has forced the cement manufacturer to employ some innovative risk management and asset optimisation solutions
A spreading collapse?
The unbridled optimism that spurred the ethanol market upwards in 2006 has been replaced by a more sombre mood. David Watkins reports
Accessing China's oil market
China's wholesale oil market is opening up to foreign investment and several western oil majors are making inroads. But many regulatory obstacles remain, as Lauren Hilgers reports
Going with the flow
The competitive edge that physical natural gas players have historically enjoyed is being eroded by advances in information flows. Vincent Kaminski and Russell Braziel discuss their study, which suggests new information flows have transformed natural gas…
Rethinking US liberalisation
Citing rising electricity prices, critics of liberalisation have recently managed to convince lawmakers in several US states to rethink policies that ban utilities from owning power plants. Elisa Wood investigates the current state of play
Tales from the sell side
Asia, and in particular China and India, represents the largest source of project-related emissions reduction credits going into the UN's Clean Development Mechanism system. Oliver Holtaway speaks to Asia Carbon Exchange's N Yuvaraj Dinesh Babu about the…
AstraZeneca
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has restructured its supply contracts towards a more flexible model
Weathering risk
Earlier this year, Storm Exchange unveiled its electronic weather exchange, based on 500 proprietary, industry-specific weather indexes serving the over-the-counter markets. David Watkins speaks to David Riker, Storm's president and chief executive,…